tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186196426989121501.post7937113176084892947..comments2021-10-23T17:07:05.011+01:00Comments on Moptops Pitstop: The Banned List #3Moptophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03043271018134053860noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186196426989121501.post-6253184045396080122010-01-29T10:31:09.060+00:002010-01-29T10:31:09.060+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.我一直亂想怎辦https://www.blogger.com/profile/16425164545051040242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186196426989121501.post-48768235052639693792010-01-26T00:10:01.072+00:002010-01-26T00:10:01.072+00:00The trouble being, Fran, that at school young peop...The trouble being, Fran, that at school young people are encouraged to "overwrite" in order to earn more marks. Then at university, we spend three years beating it out of them! It was raised as a problem at last year's NAWE conference. The poor kids feel as if they've been filleted ...Moptophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03043271018134053860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186196426989121501.post-12928203082331319552010-01-25T22:19:19.174+00:002010-01-25T22:19:19.174+00:00Hm. Think I've seen all of these things in so...Hm. Think I've seen all of these things in some teenagers' writing this week ...Fran Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07935088780461825341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186196426989121501.post-24371682194410677202010-01-25T12:41:08.457+00:002010-01-25T12:41:08.457+00:00We use metaphors and similes all the time in every...We use metaphors and similes all the time in everyday speech to convey specific images; lonely as a cloud being but one. For example, "the biting wind": the wind has no teeth, but the verb biting expresses a sensation succintly.<br /><br />It's about the precision of the writing. "His mind fell into the roaring fire" - I bet it didn't. "The wind scratched the window desperate to share the blanket the fire was blazing out." The wind scratched the window is fine - the verb is active and animates the scene - but suggesting the wind has a consciousness and is "desperate to share the blanket" is over-writing!Moptophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03043271018134053860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186196426989121501.post-86772235472320425392010-01-25T12:15:54.624+00:002010-01-25T12:15:54.624+00:00Yes, yes, I know, BUT - and I've disputed this...Yes, yes, I know, BUT - and I've disputed this with a certain Mr Bennett too (who holds the same view as you, for a change) - is ALL personification of inanimate objects bad?<br /> <br />Is the occasional 'glowering sky' to be banished forever? Must poets be smitten down for wondering 'lonely as a cloud'? <br /><br />Can curtains NEVER be cheerful, liver and onions menacing or buttons on keyboards depressed?broken birohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233920262119205474noreply@blogger.com